Beth Holloway speaks out after Joran van der Sloot confesses to killing Natalee: Watch live
Eighteen years after her daughter’s disappearance, Beth Holloway faced her daughter’s confessed killer in an Alabama courtroom.
After Joran van der Sloot entered his guilty plea Wednesday in the extortion of Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth, the mother of the 18-year-old Mountain Brook High School student who vanished in Aruba in 2005 addressed the court.
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Van der Sloot has long been the main suspect in the disappearance and death of Natalee.
Under the plea agreement, van der Sloot was required to provide details about Natalee’s disappearance, death and the disposal of her body. That has already been done in a recorded statement to federal authorities.
In return, van der Sloot received a 20-year sentence on each of the two convictions. Those sentences will be served concurrently with each other and also concurrently with his sentence in Peru.
His Peru sentence expires in 2045. Should van der Sloot be released from the Peruvian prison early, he would then have to serve the remainder of the 20-year sentence in the U.S.
Beth Holloway, after the guilty plea, addressed van der Sloot through tears. “You have finally admitted that, in fact, you murdered her,” she said in court.
“You terminated her dreams, her potential, her possibilities, when you bludgeoned her to death in 2005.
“You didn’t get what you wanted from Natalee, your sexual satisfaction, so you brutally killed her….You are the one in Aruba no one wants to be, the black mark on the island,” she said.
Beth Holloway said after Natalee was killed, van der Sloot went home and watched pornography. Holloway said she feels sorry for his mother and grandmother.
“I have no doubt she would have made all her dreams come true. She really would have,” Beth Holloway said of Natalee.
Van der Sloot sat with his attorney in an orange jumpsuit drinking water and showed no visible signs of emotion.
“I paid my daughter’s killer money. That’s shocking. I don’t think anyone can really wrap their mind around what that means,” Beth Holloway said.
“By the way you look like Hell, Joran. I do not see how you’re gonna make it….You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail door slams.”